St. Paul daily globe., 1887-01-19
BAR. TIER.
Place of Observation
SENATOR Z. X. DAVIS.

From political standpoint we can see
many reasons why Democrats have no Occa-
sion to rejoice over the election of EX-Gov-
ernOr CUSHMAN K. DAVIS to the Uuited
States senate. But, leaving partisan con-
siderations out of sight, we do find some
cause for congratuIation. In the first place
so far as persona! fitness for the exalted
station to which he has been elected is con-
cerned, Gov. DAVIS is so much superior to
the average Republican senator that the peo-
pie of Minnesota have just cause to be proud
of their selection. But the most gratifying
feature of all is that we have reached a
period in our political career when brains
counts for more than the pocket book in
senatorial election. The country has lain
SO long in sack cloth and ashes under the
abject humiliation Of seeing personal worth
and ability in public men crushed ouS by
the power of gold and the influence of cor
porate monopoly, when it does occur once
III while that an individual rises, by the
sheer force of individual merit, to the sur
face of political prominence, we feel
tempted to lay aside partisan considerations
and political prejudices and join in the gen.
eral rejoicing over the fact that such thing
can occur in these days of political degen-
eracy.
The election of Gov. DAVIS to the SEN
ate is the logical result of the last state
canvass. To his efforts, more than any
other cause. his party owes its rescue from
the overwhelming defeat which menaced it.
and which it deserved. When his party at
tempted to practice a sham by declaring in
favor of low tariff, Gov. DAVIS had the
independence to repudiate its platform and
to declare himself In accord with the plat
form of the national Republican party. He
is the ablest, as he is the truest, exponent
of Republicanism in Minnesota. and because
of that fact the GLOBE could not sup
port his candidacy for the senate.
The GLOBE holds that the Repub
lican doctrine of protection is baneful
and injurious to the great agricultural in
terests of the West. It was because of our
belief that as all advocate of protective tar
if Gov. DAVIS would not properly repre-
sent the interests of Minnesota in the sen
ate, that we opposed his election. 1t is
therefore all the more gratifying
to hear the pledge given by the
gentleman who placed him in nomination
before the Legislature yesterday, that Gov.
DAVIS will oppose any tax system
which will result in the accumulation of a
surplus in the treasury, and that he will
favor revision of the tariff to the extent
of reducing the revenues to the legitimate
expenses of government. If Gov. DAVIS
will live up to this promise the people of
this state will haye just that much more to
be grateful for.
Senator DAVIS has brilliant career be-
fore him. He is in the prime of life and in
full possession of mental strength and phys
ical vigor He enters upon the arena of
national politics with fair field spread ont
before him, and if he does not enter upon it
and gather the fruits of fame which are
growing there it will be his own fault The
people of his state have done all within
their power to elevate him into national
prominence. The rest is with himself.